New Delhi: The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 7,135 and the number of cases climbed to 256,611 in India after it registered 206 fatalities and a record single-day spike of 9,983 cases till Monday 8am, according to the Union Health Ministry.
India is the fifth worst-hit nation by the COVID-19 pandemic after the US, Brazil, Russia and the UK, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
The number of active coronavirus cases stands at 125,381 while 124,094 people have recovered and one patient has migrated, it said.
“Thus, around 48.36 per cent patients have recovered so far,” a senior health ministry official said.
The total number of confirmed cases include foreigners.
Of the 206 deaths reported since Sunday morning, 91 were in Maharashtra, 30 in Gujarat, 18 each in Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh, 13 each in West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh, nine in Rajasthan, four in Haryana, two each in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Jammu and Kashmir and Uttarakhand, and one each in Odisha and Punjab.
Out of the total 7,135 fatalities, Maharashtra tops the tally with 3,060 deaths followed by Gujarat with 1,249 deaths, Delhi with 761, Madhya Pradesh with 412, West Bengal with 396, Uttar Pradesh with 275, Tamil Nadu with 269, Rajasthan with 240 and Telangana with 123 deaths.
More than 70 per cent of the deaths are due to comorbidities, the ministry’s website stated. The highest number of confirmed cases in the country are from Maharashtra at 85,975 followed by Tamil Nadu at 31,667, Delhi at 27,654, Gujarat at 20,070, Rajasthan at 10,599, Uttar Pradesh at 10,536 and Madhya Pradesh at 9,401, according to the health ministry’s data updated in the morning.
